Post by LuckPercentSRL on Dec 16, 2015 18:40:23 GMT -6

Excited for Summer? Want to enjoy the hot weather with family and friends? Is that your plans? Well buddy I have something to show you...

Games Done Quick is a semi-annually speedrun marathon that raises money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. The links go to their "About us" pages if you want more info on what GDQ supports. These marathons are sponsored by both Speed Demos Archive and Speed Runs Live (Places to sign up and officially speedrun). During one of GDQ's marathons, Awesome Games Done Quick or Summer Games Done Quick, a large variety of people come and show their skills on many different games and complete them as fast as they can. GDQ marathons also support people who want to get involved with speedrunning. It's a fun hobby (take it from me, the only minor speedrunner on this board at the time).

Do you want to see your favorite games like Mario, Metroid, Castlevania, Kingdom Hearts, Sonic, and many more get destroyed in terms of speed? This is the marathon for you.

If you aren't sure on donating, don't worry, during each marathon, they raffle off community made prizes and or real deals during specific parts of the marathon. And if you sure you don't want to donate for the prizes, there are still possibilities. You can still give money by buying some official merch from The Yetee or one of their other partners, Humble Bundle.AND if you don't want to donate at all (Which is fine. Won't judge you) you can still help promote the events (Seriously, these events do reach the top of Twitch with the most viewers).---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NEXT EVENT: Summer Games Done QuickDate: 7/3 - 7/9Schedule: Click Here!

Any general questions concerning the marathon and what not, ask me.Otherwise, if more comprehensive questions (like to the director of such events), Click Here!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by purifyweirdsoul on Dec 17, 2015 9:42:28 GMT -6

Love GDQ. I've been watching marathons since...the first one I believe, in 2010. I remember I donated to have them name Shadow "Obama" in FFVI looooooool

It was close between that and Flonne, and I believe it was Mike Uyama iirc that reached in his pocket and threw some spare bills/coins on to the table to break the tie, saying "here's some change you can believe in!" Too good. It was quite a bit smaller back then. It's just awesome how successful they've been with this.

Post by Astaroth on Dec 17, 2015 10:24:06 GMT -6

Lol, my bf got me hooked on it last year, i really wish theyd fix their audio and boost it before they upload, cause a lot of their youtube vids are the quietest vids ive ever seen, and i can get grumps playing so loud i can hear it across the house

Satoru Iwata: "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.” Game on Iwata-san quack

Post by LuckPercentSRL on Jan 3, 2016 15:17:32 GMT -6

Horraay for the marathon starting strong. I, unfortunately cannot watch and participate until later. The internet at my folks' house is rather terrible. So I cannot watch the first few days until we get our new provider this tuesday. Maybe then I can watch.

Only sad thing is, GVirus is running Axiom Verge (I know the guy) and I won't be able to catch him.)

Post by purifyweirdsoul on Jan 5, 2016 8:12:34 GMT -6

Ridiculous amounts of practice, man...like two guys one controller Dark Souls 2, blindfolded Punch-Out, and well...the Tetris blocks they usually do. That's not on the schedule this time, is it? Not sure how they could top the last couple of times anyway, though.

Post by thrashinuva on Jan 6, 2016 13:14:55 GMT -6

So far the funnest ones to watch were probably the Super Mario 64 race, and the 2 players 1 controller Super Metroid run. They just did Ninja Gaiden 3 without killing anything other than bosses which was interesting. They also did a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles speed run... which I'm sure many of us have played and plenty of us never got past the stupid dam.

I haven't been able to catch as much as I like. I'm sure the Metroid Fusion run must have been great, but I plan on looking back on the Metroid Prime run for kicks.

It was not by my hand I am once again brought to dance the night away...

Post by Dragon_of_Dojima on Jan 7, 2016 18:23:37 GMT -6

I watched the Vendetta run this morning. It stars NOT Hulk Hogan and NOT Van Damme and NOT Mr. T going through NOT Final Fight with guns. It was awesome and looked like a quarter stealer.

I also watched Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara. He did a Blue Cleric run with the amazing earth shattering spell that won him the run!! Sticks to Snakes!!!!!It looked tough as nails and he had to heal frequently. It's a funny coincidence though. One my favorite youtubers, Projared, was doing a DnDcemember which is all about DnD(of course) and he reviewed those two arcade games. Then this game got a run in January.

There was the Hat in Time run. I was surprised that this game even got one since it's STILL in development. It was fantastic though.

There was Mega Man Zero, or as I like to call it the bane of my existence. That run was fun and kind of scary because of the spikes.

I watched bits of the kingdom hearts one. I then found out that some worlds are skippable in that game. Something I never knew.

My favorite run so far is Hotline Miami. The dudes who were running it were hilarious.

Post by thrashinuva on Jan 10, 2016 17:27:28 GMT -6

There was some negativity around the LttP reverse boss order run. The guy on the left got too excited and kicked the other dudes console which reset it. It just left bad feels all over in twitch chat and it felt like some of the people in that room felt it too. Imo they should have had the one guy wait for the other to catch up, considering it was a race.

It was not by my hand I am once again brought to dance the night away...

Post by qaantar on Jan 10, 2016 18:21:48 GMT -6

Oh, I thought the guy on the right kick-resetted his own console? Yikes... (I wasn't following chat). The guy on the left who was ahead was kind of a jerk about it a couple times after it during the run, like when the commentator said something about the guy on the right's progress, and the guy on the left was like 'what're you talking about' and the commentator had to say 'another guy is running the game...' Ouch.

Still, aside from that unpleasantness, the fact that they could do a 'true' reverse boss order is pretty incredible. That game has just been tricked out the wazoo...

Post by thrashinuva on Jan 10, 2016 18:30:53 GMT -6

Looking at the right dude you could see it in his lack of enthusiasm that he was just trying not to make a scene. Pretty much all commentary from him stopped after that. The twitch chat got modded a bit but it wasn't enough to hold them back, and eventually about 75% of the way through the left dude finally apologized (didn't feel very sincere). "Someone reset Andy's console!" over and over again.

The pre-interview the right dude said that he felt under pressure to perform well, which just goes to say he was probably pretty disappointed.

It was not by my hand I am once again brought to dance the night away...

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